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- The goal of Open Access (OA) is to grant anyone, anywhere and anytime free access to the results of scientific
research. The High-Energy Physics (HEP) community has pioneered OA with its “pre-print culture”: the mass
mailing, first, and the online posting, later, of preliminary versions of its articles. After almost half a century of
widespread dissemination of pre-prints, the time is ripe for the HEP community to explore OA publishing.
Among other possible models, a sponsoring consortium appears as the most viable option for a transition of HEP
peer-reviewed literature to OA. A Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics
(SCOAP3) is proposed as a central body which would remunerate publishers for the peer-review service,
effectively replacing the “reader-pays” model of traditional subscriptions with an “author-side” funding. Funding
to SCOAP3 would come from HEP funding agencies and library consortia through a re-direction of
subscriptions. This model is discussed in details together with a quantitative description of the HEP publishing
landscape leading to a practical proposal for a seamless transition of HEP peer-reviewed literature to OA
publishing.
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